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As a place to visit, Dabiq, a northern Syrian backwater once home to 3,000 people would hardly deserve mentioning in guidebooks — but Islamic State believes it will be the site of a doomsday battle between jihadists and their Western enemies. So when Turkish-backed Syrian rebels took the northern...read more

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In a significant setback to the Islamic State (ISIS), Syrian rebels on Sunday confirmed that they had recaptured the important village of Dabiq from the control of the Islamic State. While the village of Dabiq might not be known int...

Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.
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Turkish-backed rebel fighters on Sunday captured the northern Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels "captured Dabiq after IS members ...

Site holds crucial ideological importance to Islamic State due to Sunni prophecy Turkish-backed rebel fighters have reclaimed the northern Syrian town of Dabiq from Islamic State, a monitoring group has said. Related: Syria talks ho...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from Islamic State on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.